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ChiTown
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About 3 weeks ago an opportunity opened up for me to ride my bike to Orlando for a show I was doing, with time after the gig to wander.
Even though I had just returned home from my trip out west, I was quite excited to be able to get another ride in this year.
I flew home on Tuesday night from another tour, packed my bike, caught some sleep and set out early Wednesday for Florida.
According to Mr. Garmin it was 1164 miles to Orlando via Interstate, and I had a day and a half to get there. No problem.
I won't say just how fast I was going, wasn't looking, really :roll: but my fuel light would come on every 130 miles or so.
Fourteen hours and 804 miles later I was in Macon, GA.
The next day I finished the ride and arrived at the JW Marriot/Ritz Carleton resort with 7 hours to spare.
Here a few pics of the show I was doing, since I had to stare at for 6 days in the middle of my trip....dam pesky work, getting in the way of riding..........
So I had a week of 15 hour workdays and was ready to get moving south again.
The day before our load-out was happening I found out that NASA was launching a rocket Wednesday night at 8:30. It was a rocket called STEREO, containing a pair of satellites that are doing 3D imaging of the sun to help warn us when there's solar activity that can harm electronics.
Show was over at Noon, hmmmmmm I could be in Cape canaveral in less than 2 hours.......yes! I've never witnessed a launch and was very excited for the opportunity.
So I pushed the crew hard that day, probly didn't make any new friends , but we were out of there at 4:30.
My bike was right in front already packed from the night before, waiting to go.
I ended up finding a great camp-spot right in Cape Canaveral in Jetty Park. Perfect. I set up camp, and walked over to the beach to watch with a small crowd of maybe 100 people.
The launch was amazing needless to say, something everyone should watch in a lifetime.
GO GO GO !!!!!!! Proud to be an American! WOO HOO!
The next morning I finally was heading south again, stopped at Ft. Myers BMW to pick up a turn signal stalk to replace a broken one. After that I continued south finally getting onto US 1 and into the Keys.
I ended up at a KOA campground ($61, OUCH! ) for the night. The guy in the office wouldn't let me pick my spot, " you'll camp where we assign" in a half full campground. Kind of annoying, but it was sunset and I wasn't going keep searching for a campground at this time.
Well at least the best sunset pics of my trip came from the most expensive campground ever.
Even though I had just returned home from my trip out west, I was quite excited to be able to get another ride in this year.
I flew home on Tuesday night from another tour, packed my bike, caught some sleep and set out early Wednesday for Florida.
According to Mr. Garmin it was 1164 miles to Orlando via Interstate, and I had a day and a half to get there. No problem.
I won't say just how fast I was going, wasn't looking, really :roll: but my fuel light would come on every 130 miles or so.
Fourteen hours and 804 miles later I was in Macon, GA.
The next day I finished the ride and arrived at the JW Marriot/Ritz Carleton resort with 7 hours to spare.
Here a few pics of the show I was doing, since I had to stare at for 6 days in the middle of my trip....dam pesky work, getting in the way of riding..........
So I had a week of 15 hour workdays and was ready to get moving south again.
The day before our load-out was happening I found out that NASA was launching a rocket Wednesday night at 8:30. It was a rocket called STEREO, containing a pair of satellites that are doing 3D imaging of the sun to help warn us when there's solar activity that can harm electronics.
Show was over at Noon, hmmmmmm I could be in Cape canaveral in less than 2 hours.......yes! I've never witnessed a launch and was very excited for the opportunity.
So I pushed the crew hard that day, probly didn't make any new friends , but we were out of there at 4:30.
My bike was right in front already packed from the night before, waiting to go.
I ended up finding a great camp-spot right in Cape Canaveral in Jetty Park. Perfect. I set up camp, and walked over to the beach to watch with a small crowd of maybe 100 people.
The launch was amazing needless to say, something everyone should watch in a lifetime.
GO GO GO !!!!!!! Proud to be an American! WOO HOO!
The next morning I finally was heading south again, stopped at Ft. Myers BMW to pick up a turn signal stalk to replace a broken one. After that I continued south finally getting onto US 1 and into the Keys.
I ended up at a KOA campground ($61, OUCH! ) for the night. The guy in the office wouldn't let me pick my spot, " you'll camp where we assign" in a half full campground. Kind of annoying, but it was sunset and I wasn't going keep searching for a campground at this time.
Well at least the best sunset pics of my trip came from the most expensive campground ever.